Reception

End of Year Expectations Reception

Information for parents and carers about the end of year expectations for children in our school. These expectations have been identified as being the minimum requirements your child must meet in order to ensure continued progress throughout the following year.

All the objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of direct teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your child to achieve these is greatly valued.

Reading

Look at books and listen to stories

Use phonic knowledge to decode regular words

Be secure at Phase 4 phonics

Read Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4 tricky words

Identify rhymes and alliteration

Join in with rhyming patterns

Read and understand simple sentences

Demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read

Make basic predictions

Identify the start and end of a sentence

Know the alphabet and link letter names to the sound they make

Know the difference between a capital and lower case letter

Learn some simple rhymes and poems by heart

Speaking and Listening

Use complete sentences to explain or describe things

Listen carefully to what is being said and repeat this if needed

Know not to interrupt when someone else is saying something

Stand up in front of others and re-tell something that has happened to them

Writing

Use phonic knowledge to write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others

Write name (correct capital and lower case)

Use capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences

Write clearly demarcated sentences

Use a correct pencil grip

Correct formation of all letters

Mathematics

Count reliably to 20

Count a number of objects by pointing to/moving each one as they count

Recognise numbers to 20

Order numbers 1 – 20

Say 1 more and1 less than numbers to 20

Add and subtract two single digit numbers

Form all digits 0-9 correctly

Know the names of the days of the week in order

Begin to recognise and name common 2D shapes, e.g. square, rectangle, circle and triangle

Begin to recognise and name some 3D shapes, e.g. cube, sphere, cylinder, cone